Saturday, 27 February 2016

Holly is a white Wood

When I think about superheroes I realize that they are all Caucasian.  Okay, not all of them, but all the first stringers.  Superman, Batman, Ironman, the Hulk, Spiderman, the Green Lantern.  Most of the second stringers are Caucasian too.  It is only when you get to the third stringers that you see more diversity of roles and the bad guys.  In some cases the superhero must be Caucasian, because it is the storyline, like Wonder Woman, a Greek Amazon and Thor the Norse God of Thunder—those two have to be Caucasian, but all the others could be any race, but they are never portrayed that way.  Superman is an alien, so he could be of any appearance.  Batman, Spiderman, Ironman, the Hulk do not have it anywhere in their origin story that they are Caucasian, they are just traditionally Caucasian.   

Hell half the time when historically it makes sense to cast an ethnic group other than Caucasian, they don't and just pick some White person for the role.  This is the problem of Hollywood, it is the reason why this years Oscars are all white.  The good parts of all the movie roles are cast as white people and e bit parts by anyone.  The problem with the Oscars this year is not that there are no minorities, but that Hollywood does not cast major roles with non Caucasian people if it does not have to.  There are a lot of great Caucasian actors out there, but there are great nonCaucasian actors too.  

The biggest surprise of last year in the movies, was that the biggest box office hit, the lead actor was a woman and the best supporting actor was not Caucasian.  I am talking Star Wars here, both actors were unknowns too.  The big draws for that movie were Caucasians though, so . . ..  

Later this year there will be a movie out called Suicide Squad.  One of the characters is called DeadShot, traditionally a Caucasian, but this time an African American, except he is a bad guy and is a second stringer bad guy too.    Also this year there is a movie called The Gods of Egypt and all the main roles are played by Caucasian, even though historically, Egyptians and their Gods were black skinned.  

Maybe it is because Hollywood thinks that America is still racist and people of African heritage don't sell movie tickets.  Maybe they think that Black people only make good athletes and musicians.  What do you think?

And then I saw this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fJy_OU1DPcg

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